Everyone congratulate Sun Karma for being on the cover of the very cool Prick magazine! Prick is available for free in a huge number of cool tattoo shops and nightclubs throughout the South and quite a bit of the East and West Coasts, and you can order single copies by mail, but they are now also trying out offering a free PDF version on the Prick site which you can download to read the extensive interview with the always well-spoken Sun Karma! –Amelia G
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Went to conference. Ate food chosen by others. Drank beer.
Went to doctor. Got minor surgery. Very very small site but hard to keep dry in bath.
My body decided, quite reasonably, it would like to punch me.
Spent past week sick. Feel well enough now to be annoyed I don’t feel better. So much work to catch up on.
Got supposedly waterproof bandage. Going to attempt hot bath.
Blargh.
by Amelia G : February 11th, 2008
People tend to be most open-minded about trying new things when they are first being romanced. For example, most people are extra-likely to taste a new food or listen to a new band then they start dating someone new. By this scientific equation, I hope that readers perusing the erotic portraiture of BlueBlood.com will be feeling extra-receptive to new ideas.
One of the most important messages I would like people to internalize from Blue Blood is that having purple hair or a tattoo or a pervy wardrobe in no way makes a person a second class citizen. You are entitled to the rewards of the larger society. You are entitled to the same love as anyone, whether or not your sex is a bit kinkier than average.
The ancient Romans celebrated Lupercalia on the Ides of February by whipping hot girls with portions of sacrificed goat. (The Ides is the 15th day of a month, for those of you who have repressed your Julius Ceasar studies.) Historians can’t agree on the origins of Lupercalia or precisely which gods the festival honored. They are pretty solid on the format for the party though. If you wish to throw a Lupercalia event, you will need a variety of eligible maidens, two goats, and a dog. The idea is to sacrifice the animals and then hit the girls with pieces of them in order to ensure fertility, painless childbirth, and general sensuality. A match-making lottery is optional but considered to be part of the tradition. Sort of the bloody pagan version of a 70’s key party. Blue Blood is not really down with the animal sacrifice portion of the show because we love our dogs and goats far too much for that.
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by Amelia G : February 5th, 2008
I know Blue Blood members (and my journal pals) are from all over the world, so this won’t apply to everyone. But, if you are an American, it is your patriotic and civic responsibility to vote. Please don’t forget.
I normally do not bother to vote in primaries, but 2008 has brought primaries with candidates possessing drastically varying policies and outlooks. This year, it really makes a difference which candidates get votes in the primaries. More than 40% of the Democrat and Republican delegates will be assigned today. The following chart will let you know if your state is part of the so-called Super Tuesday round of primary votes. Many states also have referendums on the ballot today on issues which may impact you directly. With the odd exception of West Virginia, most polling places are open until 8pm in the time zone where they are located . . .
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by Amelia G : January 28th, 2008
Has anyone besides me noticed that too many episodes of The Simpsons lately have the same theme: Marge is hot for some guy other than Homer but somehow ends up back with him.
One of the things which I felt always made The Simpsons really work was that Marge and Homer had a good relationship. Lots of sitcoms have had similar themes and jokes, but they were mean-spirited and short-lived. The Simpsons boasts more than 400 episodes, so they had to have something right to start off. The animated family at Evergreen Terrace was perhaps a bit of a menace to the neighborhood, but they loved each other. Marge kept Homer grounded and Homer gave Marge excitement. Homer might mess up extravagantly from time to time, but he’s still a good provider. How many men, in 2008, can support a stay-at-home wife and three kids and own their home and two cars?
Lately, Marge seems to be finding Homer more and more of an oaf. Tonight’s episode, rewrote the history of the Simpsons family in order to mock Kurt Cobain’s legacy. As part of the stupidity, Marge miraculously gets a retroactive college degree and a radically different set of values. And a crush on her womanizing womynist professor. She does this while Homer is working at his father’s Laser Tag establishment (which we’ve never heard of before) in order to pay for her college. For the moment I will leave aside the part where FOX’s send-up of the 90’s makes the VH1 I-Love-the series look positively academic in its depth and accuracy.
Just now, let’s look at how much Marge has stopped appreciating Homer over the last few years. In January, she had an affair while Homer paid for her …
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If you could live anywhere in the United States or Europe, where would you want to live and why? (Real places only.)
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Ned Ryerson?!
New issue of Marquis just hit German newsstands, so my pals in Europe can look for it now. Will probably take a bit before it hits stateside newsstands. I do believe this is the 25th issue in a row I’ve had work in Marquis. I feel good about that because it means I can produce consistently. Maybe it’s not a fluke ;-p
So shooting this set was pretty hilarious. Bella Vendetta, Forrest Black, and I had sat around the boardwalk drinking espresso and talking about all sorts of things. Thoroughly jacked up on caffeine, we decided to shoot inside the arcade. Get that whole Barely Evil bad girl thing going. And Bella had such a cute outfit on for it. So we find a nicely-lit spot and Forrest is shooting video and I’m shooting stills and Bella is half naked. And this security guard comes over and tells Forrest that this is unacceptably naughty behavior. Only the weird thing is, he doesn’t say anything to me or Bella. So she keeps taking her clothes off and I keep photographing her doing it. The security guard is so sure Forrest must be a scary troublemaker, that he follows him around the arcade to make sure he is actually leaving. So Forrest realizes what is going on and walks verrrrrrrrrry sloooooooooooooowly. By the time, the security guard has followed Forrest’s languorous stroll to the door, Bella and I had finished shooting this fun set. Great teamwork! Whole thing on BlueBlood.com. NSFW sample after the jump.
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You can see a lifeguard truck in the background of a couple of the images in this series Forrest Black and I shot of Voltaire (miss you, girl) on the swingset by the beach. The lifeguard later came up and told us how hot he thought the swingset shoot was. It was too cold for there to be much of anyone else on the beach, so I’m not sure what he was patrolling for, but happily it was not guerrilla artists and beautiful naked tattooed hotties. Whole series on BlueBlood.com. NSFW sample after the jump.
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by Amelia G : January 18th, 2008
The West Hollywood Book Fair has received a California Park and Recreation Society Award of Excellence for three years in a row now. The Fair deserves it for throwing such a successful literary event year-after-year in the somewhat arid soil of Los Angeles.
The West Hollywood Book Fair features panels, workshops,performances, and exhibitor booths including local bookstores, small presses, literary non-profits, literary journals and arts organizations. My favorite part of the Fair was getting to see authors I know speak and discover authors I didn’t know.
The panel discussions and such were sectioned off into various niche pavilions. The pavilions of most interest to me were the Mystery, Crime& Suspense Pavilion, the Comics/Sci Fi/Horror Pavilion, and the delightfully-named Queer, Hot, and Avant Garde Pavilion. I missed the LA Noir: Crime Fiction Close to Home panel I wanted to go to in the Mystery, Crime & Suspense Pavilion. I was mostly interested because the brilliant Gary Phillips was scheduled to be speaking. I adore his gritty crime novels with characters so vibrant and real and frequently badass you want them to succeed, even as you note the ways they may destroy themselves. Heco-edited a pretty cool cocaine anthology too. I’d like to give some really great reason why I missed this particular panel, like maybe traffic was so congested from the hugeness of the event that it took awhile to find parking. But, let’s face it, a reading even in Los Angeles, even an awfully big one, is going to lay on tons of free parking and the location for this event is a really easy location to drive to. It was just the whole getting up that early in …
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by Amelia G : January 19th, 2008
Special occasion nights in Hollywood generally involve a lot of party-hopping.Sure, there are the people who have to get back in their car and go tothe next event every twenty-six minutes because that is how long ittakes for the last bump of cocaine to wear off. But it really does makesense to hit as many shindigs as possible in an evening. First of all,Los Angeles is such a vibrant city with so much going on at once, atany given time, especially on a holiday like Halloween. I know I don’twant to miss a thing. The hardest thing about going out at night in LosAngeles is blow-drying my hair. And the whole having to wear pants whenoutside of the house thing. Once I’m not naked and I’m wearingeyeliner, I feel like I might as well get full value out of havinggotten dressed and a lot of my fellow Angelenos feel the same way.
Los Angeles tends to have a dress code where it is important to lookgood but not to look like you tried too hard. This means club-goers donot dress up as much here as I might enjoy. Happily, when it comes toany special event like Halloween, the dress-down rule goes out thewindow and everyone is encouraged to really do it up.
For this past Halloween, Blue Blood sponsored a whole lot ofparties, in a whole lot of cities, in addition to doing a full on mediasponsorship arrangement with the Hex Halloween event in Hollywood. My old housemates Perish and Eden Muse (pictured above and in our Halloween picture galleries), were the flyer models and Perish’s costume concept was to embody the future. “For …
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